On Your Marx Racing is an extension of Marx Running and Fitness Center. Marx Running, a retail shoe and apparel store, originally opened in Lowell, MA in 2000 but moved to its current home on Great Road in Acton, MA in 2006. The original Marx Running location in Lowell is currently open as an outlet/closeout location. Over the years Marx Running has made many connections with local runners, community groups, and local businesses. We have experienced an increasing trend of individuals or groups from the area soliciting our help in putting on their road races. Marx Running owner, Mark Coddaire, has over 15 years of race management experience and has put on marquee events including the Baystate Marathon and other New England Grand Prix Races. As we agreed to help more and more local races grow, it became apparent to us that we needed a standardized infrastructure in place to handle these increasing requests. By creating On Your Marx Racing, we are able to outline our services and expectations for the race management process. We have a central location (www.onyourmarxracing.com) where all our events are stored with complete information. We are also able to provide a customer service phone number (our Acton location phone number 978-263-5510) for all our events. This is valuable to local or charity-based races that wish to grow. Instead of volunteers divvying up the tedious work involved with putting on a road race, we have the capability to build the race web site, speak to the local police for event authorization, organize race registration, procure a timing company, and provide business hours support all at our fingertips. We also have the advantage of years of experience and extensive local knowledge. Most of the races we work with have their race proceeds going to some benevolent cause. Because we are passionate about running, we usually stress that our races make some effort to give back to the local running community. This commitment will vary from race to race, but our aim is to do our best to foster a healthy road running environment.